Finance Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Financial
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,298 3,336 5,443
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.52% 22.05% 21.48%
As % of the General category 37.56% 37.52% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 2,203 3,878
10th Percentile £358 £394 £400
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +1.78% +7.18%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £850 £850 £813
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 102 59
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.31 £20.75
25th Percentile £20.45 £23.63 £25.71
Median hourly rate £54.75 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.63% +8.91% -21.35%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £60.00
90th Percentile £87.05 £53.98 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +37.24% +5.02% -25.21%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,118 8,891 14,803
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.61% 58.77% 58.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 5,830 10,429
10th Percentile £326 £325 £363
25th Percentile £416 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 473 338
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.01 £19.00
25th Percentile £18.12 £22.61 £26.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.68% -23.76% +53.85%
75th Percentile £64.52 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £32.85
% change year-on-year -8.82% -8.17% +49.50%

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Finance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Finance.

Finance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Finance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Finance.

Finance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Finance hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 108 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (3.79%) Apache
3 67 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 60 (2.61%) Confluence
5 52 (2.26%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.52%) SAS
8 10 (0.44%) CMS
9 7 (0.30%) CICS
10 6 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.17%) JBoss
12 4 (0.17%) nginx
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.17%) WordPress
13 3 (0.13%) IBM Notes
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
14 2 (0.087%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 95 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) Sketch
8 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 2 (0.087%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.087%) InVision
10 1 (0.044%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.044%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.044%) EViews
10 1 (0.044%) InDesign
10 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 79 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (2.13%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.87%) SAP FI
5 18 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 18 (0.78%) SAP CO
6 17 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
7 16 (0.70%) thinkFolio
8 15 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
9 14 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
10 13 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
10 13 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
11 12 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
12 11 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
13 8 (0.35%) iTrent
13 8 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
14 7 (0.30%) NetSuite
14 7 (0.30%) PeopleSoft Financials
14 7 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 339 (14.75%) AWS
2 335 (14.58%) Azure
3 152 (6.61%) GCP
4 111 (4.83%) dbt
5 92 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 74 (3.22%) Snowflake
7 73 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
9 61 (2.65%) Entra ID
10 56 (2.44%) SaaS
11 54 (2.35%) Serverless
12 53 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
14 42 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (1.78%) OpenShift
16 31 (1.35%) GitHub
16 31 (1.35%) OCI
17 25 (1.09%) Dagster
18 24 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.09%) Firewall
2 31 (1.35%) Network Security
3 26 (1.13%) DNS
4 25 (1.09%) VPN
5 21 (0.91%) WAN
6 17 (0.74%) DHCP
7 15 (0.65%) BGP
8 14 (0.61%) LAN
8 14 (0.61%) OSPF
8 14 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.48%) Wireless
10 10 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.35%) HTTP
12 7 (0.30%) SSL
13 6 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.26%) SMTP
14 5 (0.22%) Internet
14 5 (0.22%) NGFW
14 5 (0.22%) SAN
14 5 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (6.09%) Data Lake
2 106 (4.61%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (4.53%) Apache Iceberg
3 104 (4.53%) Dremio
4 94 (4.09%) Apache Arrow
5 76 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 75 (3.26%) Power BI
7 68 (2.96%) Apache Ignite
8 62 (2.70%) SQL Server
9 59 (2.57%) Relational Database
10 56 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
11 43 (1.87%) MongoDB
12 33 (1.44%) DB2
13 26 (1.13%) Big Data
13 26 (1.13%) Oracle Database
13 26 (1.13%) Tableau
14 25 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (0.74%) NoSQL
16 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 115 (5.00%) JIRA
2 52 (2.26%) Git
3 44 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.39%) JUnit
5 30 (1.31%) Artifactory
6 26 (1.13%) GitLab
7 24 (1.04%) Visual Studio
8 13 (0.57%) Maven
9 10 (0.44%) Selenium
10 9 (0.39%) Subversion
11 7 (0.30%) Postman
11 7 (0.30%) webpack
12 6 (0.26%) Ant
12 6 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.26%) JMeter
12 6 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.22%) ERwin
13 5 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 673 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 567 (24.67%) Banking
3 370 (16.10%) Front Office
4 306 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (6.14%) Investment Banking
6 114 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 99 (4.31%) Marketing
8 89 (3.87%) Manufacturing
9 65 (2.83%) Legal
10 60 (2.61%) Retail
11 59 (2.57%) Financial Institution
11 59 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 54 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (2.13%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
15 41 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.78%) Law
16 38 (1.65%) General Ledger
17 35 (1.52%) Electronics
18 33 (1.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 363 (15.80%) Analyst
2 356 (15.49%) Developer
3 205 (8.92%) Senior
4 191 (8.31%) Business Analyst
5 180 (7.83%) Project Manager
6 175 (7.62%) Consultant
7 157 (6.83%) Lead
8 144 (6.27%) Architect
9 142 (6.18%) Software Engineer
10 118 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
11 108 (4.70%) Python Engineer
12 92 (4.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 87 (3.79%) Data Engineer
14 66 (2.87%) AWS Software Engineer
15 62 (2.70%) Java Developer
16 60 (2.61%) Programme Manager
17 53 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (2.26%) Data Analyst
18 52 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
19 51 (2.22%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (4.92%) Kafka
2 105 (4.57%) React
3 75 (3.26%) .NET
3 75 (3.26%) AngularJS
3 75 (3.26%) Pandas
4 74 (3.22%) Node.js
5 73 (3.18%) NumPy
6 70 (3.05%) PySpark
6 70 (3.05%) Redux
7 66 (2.87%) SciPy
8 52 (2.26%) Spring
9 50 (2.18%) Web Services
10 45 (1.96%) Vue
11 41 (1.78%) gRPC
11 41 (1.78%) Protocol Buffers
12 36 (1.57%) J2EE
13 35 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
14 34 (1.48%) .NET Core
15 30 (1.31%) REST
16 29 (1.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 284 (12.36%) Fixed Income
2 219 (9.53%) Derivative
3 212 (9.23%) Equities
4 208 (9.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 197 (8.57%) Hedge funds
6 89 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 81 (3.52%) Onboarding
8 74 (3.22%) Management Information System
9 61 (2.65%) Data Centre
10 48 (2.09%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 32 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (0.96%) Mainframe
15 22 (0.96%) Security Posture
16 21 (0.91%) Cloud Native
17 20 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
18 19 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 146 (6.35%) Windows
2 119 (5.18%) Linux
3 45 (1.96%) Unix
4 38 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.39%) Android
9 6 (0.26%) AIX
9 6 (0.26%) zOS
10 4 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
11 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.13%) VMS
12 2 (0.087%) Debian
13 1 (0.044%) HPUX
13 1 (0.044%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.044%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (30.42%) Agile
2 398 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
3 356 (15.49%) Migration
4 270 (11.75%) Project Management
5 269 (11.71%) Investment Management
6 261 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 253 (11.01%) Asset Management
8 225 (9.79%) Analytics
9 224 (9.75%) DevOps
10 219 (9.53%) Software Engineering
11 191 (8.31%) Roadmaps
12 172 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
12 172 (7.48%) Change Management
13 153 (6.66%) CI/CD
14 150 (6.53%) Fintech
15 147 (6.40%) Data Governance
16 132 (5.74%) Risk Management
17 130 (5.66%) Project Delivery
18 128 (5.57%) Data Management
19 126 (5.48%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 424 (18.45%) Python
2 325 (14.14%) SQL
3 222 (9.66%) Java
4 173 (7.53%) JavaScript
5 154 (6.70%) TypeScript
6 85 (3.70%) C#
7 81 (3.52%) PowerShell
8 40 (1.74%) C++
9 37 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 35 (1.52%) Go
10 35 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 30 (1.31%) Bash
12 16 (0.70%) Scala
13 14 (0.61%) Delphi
14 13 (0.57%) Bicep
15 10 (0.44%) R
16 9 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.35%) PHP
18 7 (0.30%) COBOL
18 7 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 151 (6.57%) Degree
2 132 (5.74%) Security Cleared
3 111 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 45 (1.96%) PMI Certification
5 42 (1.83%) PMP
6 29 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.17%) CISSP
9 26 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (0.87%) CCNP
12 18 (0.78%) ACCA
12 18 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (0.61%) CIMA
13 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.48%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.48%) Azure Certification
15 10 (0.44%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.39%) CISM
17 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.00%) PMO
2 56 (2.44%) QA
3 49 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 39 (1.70%) MiFID
5 35 (1.52%) GDPR
5 35 (1.52%) NIST
6 25 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 24 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.65%) SLA
10 14 (0.61%) IFRS
11 11 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
11 11 (0.48%) GRC
12 9 (0.39%) EMIR
13 8 (0.35%) GAAP
13 8 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.22%) Basel III
15 5 (0.22%) COBIT
15 5 (0.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 80 (3.48%) Docker
2 73 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.39%) vSphere
6 3 (0.13%) HDFS
6 3 (0.13%) RACF
7 2 (0.087%) Firmware
7 2 (0.087%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.044%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.044%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.044%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.044%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.044%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 98 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.00%) Terraform
3 41 (1.78%) Ansible
4 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.61%) SCCM
6 10 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.26%) Grafana
9 5 (0.22%) Control-M
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.22%) Puppet
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.13%) Istio
11 3 (0.13%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.13%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.087%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 218 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.79%) Oracle
3 187 (8.14%) SAP
4 59 (2.57%) ServiceNow
5 40 (1.74%) BISAM
6 37 (1.61%) Sybase
7 35 (1.52%) Databricks
7 35 (1.52%) IBM
8 31 (1.35%) Google
8 31 (1.35%) VMware
9 30 (1.31%) Cisco
9 30 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 27 (1.17%) Splunk
10 27 (1.17%) Workday
11 23 (1.00%) CyberArk
11 23 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 22 (0.96%) Ariba
13 21 (0.91%) Charles River
13 21 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 20 (0.87%) Calypso